#dresden

They don't make morgues with windows. In fact, if the geography allows for it, they hardly ever make morgues above the ground. I guess it's partly because it must be eisier to refrigerate a bunch of coffin-sized chambers in a room insulated by the earth. But that can't be all there is to it. Under the earth means a lot more than relative altitude. It's where dead things fit. Graves are under the earth. So are Hell, Gehenna, Hades, and a dozen other reported afterlives. Maybe it says somthing about people. Maybe for us, under the earth is a subtle and profound statement. Maybe ground level provides us with a kind of symbolic boundary marker, an artificial construct that helps us remember that we are alive. Mabye it helps us push death's shadow back from our lives. I live in a basement apartment and like it. What does that say about me? Probably that I overanalyze things. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#harry-dresden #humor #death

There's a fine line between audacity and idiocy. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#harry-dresden #idiocy #harry-dresden

Thwart," I said. "To prevent someone from accomplishing something by means of visiting gratuitous violence upon his smarmy person." "I'm pretty sure that isn't the definition." Sarissa said. "It is today. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#harry-dresden #harry-dresden

Knowledge is the ultimate weapon. It always has been. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#knowledge #harry-dresden

Time after time, history demonstrates that when people don't want to believe something, they have enormous skills of ignoring it altogether. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#history #ignorance #ignorance

Where instinct fails, intellect must venture. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#instinct #intellect #intellect

I think that men ought to treat women like something other than weaker men with breasts. ↗